have become much more than just simple games. Sports now rule the world as a multi-million dollar business. Over the last several decades, salaries for top athletes have skyrocketed in all major professional sports in the United States. Professional athletes enjoy fame and fortune well beyond what they deserve. Although all-star professional athletes have unique talents, the immense pay they receive in relation to their contributions to the good of society overshadows the compensation of other meaningful
that professional athletes get paid millions of dollars to play a sport, while there are people struggling to get by working three jobs? In my mind it makes absolutely no sense what’s so ever how people working forty plus hours have a salary that is penny change to professional athletes. “In fact, each basket Kobe Bryant scores earns him equivalent to the average classroom teacher’s yearly salary (bleacherreport.com)” This stat right here is the definition of disgusting. Professional athletes are
Should College Athletes Be Paid? With all the publicity and media output on television for National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) basketball teams and football teams you would assume colleges could and should pay their athletes, right? Wrong. These are student-athletes not professional athletes. Paying of athletes should be left for the professionals. Colleges should maintain the purpose to educate and expand opportunity for future careers through exposure from their athletic performance
when college sports were not as popular as today, no one really questioned why college athletes were not paid. Today however, with college sport being broadcast live mostly every weekend people question why college athletes are not paid. Many institutions earn multi-million a year from their athletic programs. College athletes receive none of the money they bring in for the school, while coaches and staff are paid mammoth salaries. The NCAA is capitalizing on the popularity of college sports by selling
Athletes: Do they make too much money? In the article “Do Professional Athletes Get Payed Too Much Money?” author Mihir Bhagat explains that professional athletes to in fact do get payed too much money. Bhagat explains this by comparing the salaries of other people that have a high importance to society but receive much smaller salaries than these athletes do. Bhagat also states that actually becoming a professional athlete is very difficult to achieve, but their main job is to entertain the public
great if you get paid millions by simply playing a game? Some professional athletes make millions of dollars in one season by doing so. A professional athlete is someone who is paid to play a sport. Floyd Mayweather Jr., a professional boxer, is the most paid athlete in the world. He has a net worth is $295 million and has a salary income of $50 million. It is valid that many athletes are paid enormously for a game that if played within a matter of minutes, but these professional athletes are worth what
Over the years, there has been controversy on whether or not college athletes should be paid to play. In the article, “The Pros and Cons of Paying Athletes” written by Jane Dabad, he says, “the main reason why paying college athletes still isn't legalized is because of the strong stand of the spirit of amateurism against the idea.” Dabad also talks about how it would not be fair to the schools that make little to no revenue, and therefore how would they be able to afford it? So a good question would
the debate about NCAA athletes earning money continues to grow, an important issue continues to be talked about which some think. Is that athletes are being paid already. NCAA athletes playing a sport have a potential of earning right around 25 million in cash over their four-year college career for their school (if they are in the top 25 D1 poll.) In my opinion, college athletes should not be paid because of these reasons. The fact athletes are not employees, college athletes are students, colleges
College athletes are phenomenal at whatever sport they do, but should they be paid? Paying athletes in college sports is like paying business men to attend meetings. No matter what sport, ever since the 2000s, college sports have brought in a bunch of money to their universities, as well as increasing the popularity for their college. For example, "Orlando Sentiniel, it is estimated that the Athletic Program of Texas University had the highest amount of money made out of any other University at $120
Should college athletes get paid or should they not? That question has been asked for many years. It has been a very controversial topic between people who think they should get paid for what they do and for people who think that they should not be paid. Some people have very high emotions about the topic or others might not care but either way it is still a very relevant topic in today’s world. Some people say that college athletes should not get paid because they will put their education behind